1830 Quotes

#1. Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]

William Hazlitt

#2. I was born in Berlin on March 15, 1830, the second son of the royal university professor K. W. L. Heyse and his wife Julie, nee Saaling, who came from a Jewish family.

Paul Heyse

#3. The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
(1778 - 1830)

William Hazlitt

#4. The modern idea of testing a reader's "comprehension," as distinct from something else a reader may be doing, would have seemed an absurdity in 1790 or 1830 or 1860. What else was reading but comprehending?

Neil Postman

#5. No one in the church, in 1970, knew that the doctrine of pre-tribulation rapture had never been found in history before 1830, or that it was first promoted by an Irish minister named John Nelson Darby.

Ken Dahl Gabby Schulz

#6. If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

Thomas B. Macaulay

#7. On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

Henry Bessemer

#8. The summer of 1830 I ... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill ... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

Ezra Cornell

#9. Be good children, and we shall all meet in Heaven. I want to meet you all, white and black, in Heaven. Our Federal Union! It must be preserved! [Toast at a celebration of Thomas Jefferson's birthday, April 13 1830]

Andrew Jackson

#10. To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

Alvin Toffler

#11. From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.

Michael Beschloss

#12. I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.

Conor McPherson

#13. The first pan-European peace organization was established in Geneva in 1830, but

Mark Kurlansky

#14. On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

Orson Pratt

#15. The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.
January 1830

Daniel Webster

#16. I don't like getting older, but there's nothing I can do. Hitting 60 wasn't great, but I think I was lucky in not being that beautiful; it can be really cruel on people who have been stunning.

Jane Birkin

#17. Since the time of Voltaire and two-chamber Government, which is at bottom simply distrust and personal self-examination, and gives the popular mind that bad habit of being suspicious, the Church of France seems to have realised that books are its real enemies.

Stendhal

#18. Could anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character?

Stendhal

#19. Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day.

Malcolm X

#20. Furniture!" bellowed the witch. "Tables, bathtub, the lot of you. It's time to go out in the world and seek your fortunes, if that's your hope." There was a crashing sound as all the furniture went and tried to hide under the bed, and the bed tried to hide under itself.

Gregory Maguire

#21. liberally equipped with one-way pockets

P.G. Wodehouse

#22. Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is called life.

Stendhal

#23. But of no nombre mencioun made he, Of bigamye, or of octogamye33. Why sholde men thanne speke of it vileinye34?

Geoffrey Chaucer

#24. You don't necessarily meet a lot of people in this world. Not when you let yourself get distracted by music and the passing of hours.

Michael Cunningham

#25. When we drop all of our painful effort to attain something, then suddenly there is spaciousness in our consciousness, a sense of being unobstructed, and we are able to enjoy life as it comes.

Anam Thubten

#26. I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#27. No matter if the path is tough, and your nights are long,So long as your cause is noble and your mind is strong.

Tony Robbins

#28. I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

Stendhal

#29. I will never demean myself to speak about my courage," said Julien, coldly, "it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge by the facts.

Stendhal

#30. For he that feeds men serveth few;
He serves all who dares be true.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#31. The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

Stendhal

#32. The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.

Theodore Parker

#33. Oh, if there were only a true religion. Fool that I am, I see a Gothic cathedral and venerable stained-glass windows, and my weak heart conjures up the priest to fit the scene. My soul would understand him, my soul has need of him. I only find a nincompoop with dirty hair.

Stendhal